Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo
Brigitte Niedermair
– Me and Fashion
Zuecca Project Space
Elisabeth
von Samsonow and Juergen Teller
The
Parent’s Bedroom Show
Museo Correr
Chiara Dynys
– Sabra Beauty Everywhere
Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo – MUVE Contemporaneo
Brigitte Niedermair
– Me and Fashion
Brigitte Niedermair’s solo exhibition at the
Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo, until November 24, curated by Charlotte Cotton under
the scientific direction of Gabriella Belli, is a dynamic interplay of the
artist’s photographs – drawn from her archive of over twenty years of
photographic practice – with the architecture and decor of the interconnected
rooms of Palazzo Mocenigo.
Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo
Brigitte Niedermair
– Me and Fashion
Niedermair has responded to the distinct
atmosphere of each room, in Venice’s Museum of Fabrics and Costume, inserting
her hallmark tableaux fashion and still life photographs into these historic
environments that range from intimate to imposing scale.
Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo
Brigitte Niedermair
– Me and Fashion
Niedermair
selected
paintings from the Palazzo Mocenigo
collection for de-installation, replacing them with her photographs to
consciously amplify and counterargue with the embedded subtexts of gender and
identity that permeate these predominantly 17th century interiors.
Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo
Brigitte Niedermair
– Me and Fashion
Niedermair’s intervention at the Museo di
Palazzo Mocenigo re-animates the interiors and the narratives of gender that
they hold. Niedermair is an exceptional figure within the field of fashion
image-making as both a female auteur and one who activates her female gaze
within a male dominated image system.
Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo
Brigitte Niedermair
– Me and Fashion
Zuecca Project Space – Spazio Ridotto
Elisabeth
von Samsonow and Juergen Teller
The
Parent’s Bedroom Show
The project The Parents’ Bedroom Show, until July 31, by Elisabeth
von Samsonow and Juergen
Teller, curated by Christian
Bauer, deals with the architecture of time
involved in the practice of the performing art, and is presented by Zuecca Projects and the PhotoPhore. The show is based on Samsonow’s performance by the same name, realized in Munich in a public
space, that deals with the tension between the public and
the intimate, and gravitates around the Freudian fantasy of the Urszene, “primal scene”. The parents’ bedroom appears as a
crossroad for individual and collective histories/ biographies. It is
supposed to be the origin of the Will to Knowledge.
Zuecca Project Space – Spazio Ridotto
Elisabeth
von Samsonow and Juergen Teller
The
Parent’s Bedroom Show
As
the performance is a time-based event
cutting the edge of time and projecting it into a non-ritual space of density and meaningfulness,
photography produces singularities of an absolute
past that becomes perennial. Juergen
Teller takes part in the project, not as the photographer who
just archives the performance, but as a partner
in crime who permits us to experience the performance even
after the end of its live-acting, re-proposing that act in a
different time, manipulating and inverting the ordinary time’s
life-death-vector through
the medium of photography.
Zuecca Project Space – Spazio Ridotto
Elisabeth
von Samsonow and Juergen Teller
The
Parent’s Bedroom Show
Zuecca Project Space – Spazio Ridotto
Elisabeth
von Samsonow and Juergen Teller
The
Parent’s Bedroom Show
As there is a constitutive link between
performance and modes of archiving it, like photography and video, the show makes explicit how this link has to do with manipulations/recreations/artistic resettings of time.
Museo Correr
Chiara
Dynys – Sabra beauty Everywhere
From the
VAF-Stiftung Collection, at the Museo
Correr, Chiara Dynys, Sabra beauty Everywhere, until November 24, is
curated by Gabriella Belli. Dynys is
a multifaceted artist who creates conceptual experiences as well as
painting/sculpture and has produced a considerable quantity of performance art
and other work that is strongly committed to current social and anthropological
themes.
Museo Correr
Chiara
Dynys – Sabra beauty Everywhere
Dynys’s Sabra Beauty Everywhere, was created in 2012 in the refugee camps
of Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon. The
theme is childhood games, played by children who are living in these ghettos of
fear and isolation, yet who – despite everything – still manage to be children,
behaving with an apparent disarming normality. Encased in precious
‘tabernacles’, the images of lacerated childhood bear witness to the commitment
and role of Fondazione Musei Civici di
Venezia in examining the emerging problems of social coexistence.
Museo Correr
Chiara
Dynys – Sabra beauty Everywhere